Covid-19 not done yet

IT goes without saying that Covid-19 is highly contagious and without a cure at this juncture.
There are two major factors enabling it take the upper hand in causing havoc in death tolls throughout continents.
It indiscriminatingly penetrates borders and spreads by way of contact with contaminated persons and objects.
According to Dr Glen Mola, the rise in Covid-19 cases tends to be minimal and slow at initial stages, typifying sporadic instances however, as momentum gains through medium to gross community contact, the surge in cases alarmingly spiral.
This is the general spreading tendency trite of Covid-19, as is common in other countries, where it is now in the mainstream.
This foresight is from none other than, a senior authority in medical science; a subtle advice to the Government to take heed of.
We appear to be at the threshold, or buffer time-zone, so it is necessary for the Government to re-strategise and firmly establish revolutionary measures on prevention, containment and treatment, ending with post-treatment scrutiny, before patients are fully released back to their communities.
Otherwise, we are in a cul-de-sac, heading towards an imminent disaster.
Advanced nations, let alone the USA, albeit having state-of-the art medical facilities and clinical health care systems, are reeling and heaving in erratic frenzy, as they relentlessly grapple to find a cure.
The entire world is gripped in a pulsating web of fear and confusion.
What is PNG to think it can withstand it by learning to live with it?
They cannot tell us not to fear and panic, or learn to live with it.
Covid-19 is already onshore and is getting into the nation’s capital and other provinces given the resumption of flights to and from Port Moresby.
We can no longer bury our heads in the sand like ostriches and pretend to be taking care of it.
While we still have invaluable time, which is very little, the Government should appoint an ad-hoc team, a cadre of experts in the realms of medical science, research, publicity and law and order, to be headed by a viral doctor with enough experience of viral diseases.
Only then, we may have a breather until such a time that a vaccine is ready.

Alois Ruarri
Mikarew, Bogia